Rieke v. City of Louisville

WILHOIT, Judge.

This appeal is from an order dismissing the appellants’ complaint whereby they had sought a declaration, to paraphrase the trial court, that the City of Louisville had impermissibly taken their property when it denied them a permit to construct a driveway across a portion of Southern Parkway.

The relevant facts as found by the trial court are as follows:

Just before the turn of the century, Louisville developed three major parks in and around the city and connected them by a series of parkways. These parks and parkways exist today. One park, Iroquois, and one parkway, Southern,…